Urulai Roast
Kara Urulai roast is a potato roast with flavours of onions, garlic and red chillies. You can pair this with curd rice or rasam rice.
Ingredients
- 5-6 Potatoes medium sized
- 2 tsp Cooking oil
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Split Urad Dal
- 2 sprig Curry Leaves
- 10-12 cloves Garlic small size, or 3-4 of the large cloves
- 1 Onion small, sliced thin
- ½ tsp Asafoetida powder
- 1 tsp Red Chilli powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Pepper powder
- 1 tbsp Coriander Leaves for garnish
Instructions
Prep Work
- Wash the potatoes and pressure cook them for 2-3 whistles. It is ok if the potatoes are par-boiled. Remove from the cooker and peel the skin. If you are boiling the potatoes on the stove, add the whole potatoes with the skin into a pot of boiling water. Cook until the outer part of the potato is tender. Remove from the water and peel the skin once they are cool enough to handle.
- Chop the boiled potatoes into cubes. The next step is to fry the potatoes.
- Chop the onions into thin slices and keep aside. Take a whole bulb of garlic and separate out the cloves. You can retain the skin of the garlic - this adds to the flavour.
- Frying in oilPlace a pan with 250 ml oil and allow it to warm up. Once the oil is warm, add the cubed potatoes and fry them until they are golden brown. Drain the potatoes on a kitchen tissue and season them with salt. Air fryerAdd the cubed potatoes to a bowl and drizzle a tablespoon of oil on it. Season with salt and add them to the air fryer basket. Roast the potatoes at 180℃ for 15 minutes. At the 10 minute mark, pause and give the basket a shake to allow even roasting. Remove from the basket and keep aside.
Making the Uruali Roast
- To a kadai, add a teaspoon of oil. Once the oil is warm, add mustard seeds and allow them to sputter. Next add the split urad dal.
- Follow it up with some curry leaves and give it all a good stir.
- Next, add the cloves of garlic and roast until they are soft and browned slightly. Keep pressing the garlic so that they pop out of their skins.
- Once the garlic is brown, add the sliced onions and saute them together, At this stage you can add some sugar to help with browning the onions. This process might take 10 minutes. You need not caramelize the onions but just brown enough to add some flavour.
- Its now time to add the spice powders - asafoetida and red chilli powder. Mix them well and add ¼ cup of water. Close the lid and allow the spice to cook.
- After all the water has absorbed, add the fried potatoes and give them all a good mix. Season the potatoes with salt and pepper.
- Have a taste of the potatoes and adjust the seasoning accordingly.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.